Allistair Booth

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Allistair is a partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP where his practice covers e-commerce, IT, publishing and bio/pharma sectors. He has published articles on linking and aggregating, lectured on those subjects as well as cryptography, distance selling and other e-commerce.../ read more matters. He has been practicing law with specialist intellectual property firms in New Zealand and England since 1989. He graduated from the University of Auckland in 1988 with degrees in law and economics. / close

John Enser

Olswang
John is a partner at Olswang and provides advice to clients active in all aspects of the media and communications business. His clients include record companies, broadcasters, surviving dotcoms, and household name retailers, as well as ISPs, portals, software developers.../ read more and suppliers of interactive TV technology. John writes and speaks regularly on a range of topics relating to interactive media. All three of the independent legal directories rank him as one of the UK's leading practitioners in e-commerce and digital media. John is a member of the DTI Foresight Programme's working party on the Future of Information Relationships and author of the "Distribution of Audiovisual Content" chapter of Global Telecommunications Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell). / close

Dawn Osborne

Palmer Biggs Legal
Dawn has been a Partner at Palmer Biggs Legal since June 2009, having previously worked at Rouse & Co as a Partner for over ten years. Dawn specialises in IP litigation, including copyright and trade marks on the internet and was.../ read more involved in the reported Pitman and Prince domain name litigation. Her expertise in online alternative dispute resolution mechanisms has led her to be a panellist for the WIPO and NAF deciding domain name disputes under the ICANN procedure and for Nominet and .eu for their procedures. She is a Board Member of the Federation Against Software Theft and Chairman of their Legal Action Group FLAG. Dawn is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. / close

Mark Owen

Harbottle & Lewis LLP
Mark is a Partner with Harbottle & Lewis LLP, where he heads the IP group. He specialises in digital media, intellectual property and e-commerce issues, and advises clients across the digital content and marketing sectors. Mark is also a member.../ read more of the California Bar having worked in the Silicon Valley on software and semiconductor litigation, and is also a committee member of INTA and the Law Society's IP working party. He writes, speaks and tweets frequently on issues affecting advanced media and communications law. / close

Tim Penny

11 Stone Buildings
Tim is a barrister at 11 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. His practice involves chancery/commercial, intellectual property and IT related issues. Recent litigation has involved the Metalrax case (reported here in Vol 2 Issue 1) and numerous internet-related disputes involving database.../ read more rights, copyright and data protection. Advisory work includes advising a major telecoms provider on European data protection issues. Recommended as junior Counsel in The Legal 500 in connection with Sports Law. / close

Steven Philippsohn

PCB Litigation LLP
Steven is a leading authority on fraud. He has recently given papers at the International Bar Association, the International Chamber of Commerce and to a UK Government Department. He frequently writes for newspapers and specialist law publications. He is co-editor.../ read more of the UK Manual of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is a member of the IAAC and the E-Fraud working party of the Fraud Advisory Panel. Steven qualified in 1972 and became the litigation partner of a substantial Central London practice prior to starting his own firm in 1979. His firm was identified in the 2000 edition of The Legal 500 as a leading fraud litigation practice in the UK. / close

Stephen Sidkin

Fox Williams
Stephen is a founding partner of Fox Williams. He specialises in advising on agency and distributorship agreements and competition law. He frequently writes on disintermediation, the effect of e-commerce on agency and distributorship agreements and the competition law aspects of.../ read more B2B exchanges. Stephen is featured in Mondaq's Survey of Leading Internet & E-Commerce Lawyers. He is a member of the Society for Computers & Law and a member and past chairman of the Commercial Law Sub-Committee of the City of London Law Society, the sub-committee which has taken the lead in considering issues of e-commerce law on behalf of the Society. / close

Eduardo Ustaran

Field Fisher Waterhouse
Eduardo is a partner and a dually qualified Spanish Abogado and English Solicitor with Field Fisher Waterhouse. He specialises in the legal issues that derive from the use of information technology and the internet. He advises on the impact of.../ read more EU data protection law on the operational activities of all types of businesses. He has advised a number of multinational clients on the adoption of company-wide data protection strategies. He is a recognised expert in the area of online privacy and provides data protection-related advice to leading players in the electronic environment. He is a regular contributor to legal and industry journals and has taken part in many international speaking engagements. He is responsible for 'complytoday', an interactive data protection compliance package for e-businesses. / close

Philip Westmacott

Bristows
Philip is lead partner of Bristow's IT Practice. He has advised in the information technology sector for over eighteen years. Philip's practice covers the full range of intellectual property rights and his expertise extends into a number of both hi-tech.../ read more and traditional industries. He is a member of the London Computer Law Group. He is also a member of the AIPPI and an associate of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents. He lectures in patent law on the Bristol University Diploma in Intellectual Property. He has a BA (Engineering and Law), from Cambridge and qualified as a Solicitor in 1978. / close